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A review by carolinetew
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
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3.5/5
Rating a memoir is always tough, especially when it's from an author you already admire greatly. I think this hit on some stuff that felt very relevant to me--I wrote big papers on Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses in college and admire them very deeply, I'm also looking down the barrel of a serious surgery--and I'm not sure I would have gotten much out of this book had both of those things not been true about me.
It was so interesting to hear about his experience in the years after the fatwa, and comparing this new incident to that time in his life. But I also wanted more contemplation and less writing about his love for his wife (who I'm sure he loves very much, but it's just interesting when you know this is his FIFTH). At the end of the day, Rushdie is a writer I respect a lot and while it's unfair to ask more of him when it's such a personal subject...here I am!
Rating a memoir is always tough, especially when it's from an author you already admire greatly. I think this hit on some stuff that felt very relevant to me--I wrote big papers on Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses in college and admire them very deeply, I'm also looking down the barrel of a serious surgery--and I'm not sure I would have gotten much out of this book had both of those things not been true about me.
It was so interesting to hear about his experience in the years after the fatwa, and comparing this new incident to that time in his life. But I also wanted more contemplation and less writing about his love for his wife (who I'm sure he loves very much, but it's just interesting when you know this is his FIFTH). At the end of the day, Rushdie is a writer I respect a lot and while it's unfair to ask more of him when it's such a personal subject...here I am!